From UMBC News and Magazine
UMBC’s 2023 commencement speakers represent the best of higher education
This year’s UMBC commencement speakers represent the best of what higher education strives to be, applying insights to meet the needs of humanity. Commencement speakers Keith T. Elder,...
Posted: May 16, 2023, 10:32 AM
UMBC, Maryland Matters host climate forum with top officials in Gov. Wes Moore’s administration
This week, UMBC and Maryland Matters hosted state officials in Governor Wes Moore’s administration for a community forum on Maryland’s plan to address concerns related to climate change and the...
Posted: May 12, 2023, 4:53 PM
Meet a Retriever — Phil Shockley ’04, M.P.P. ’09
Meet UMBC Retriever Phil Shockley ’04, political science and information systems, M.P.P. ’09. As an undergraduate, he was Student Government Association president and took part in leadership roles...
Posted: November 17, 2022, 3:38 PM
Deaths and injuries in road crashes are a ‘silent epidemic on wheels’
John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC The COVID-19 pandemic has generated mind-numbing statistics over the past two years: half a billion cases, 6 million deaths, 1...
Posted: May 31, 2022, 2:14 PM
Ten million reads: UMBC researchers hit milestone in sharing knowledge through The Conversation
UMBC researchers regularly share their work and expertise with the public through The Conversation—a nonprofit news outlet that provides current, informative content to news publications...
Posted: March 7, 2022, 9:35 PM
UMBC’s Fernando Tormos-Aponte is named an Early Career Faculty Innovator for research on energy inequality
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has named Fernando Tormos-Aponte, assistant professor of public policy and political science, an Early Career Faculty Innovator–one of 12 across...
Posted: December 15, 2021, 5:36 PM
Women leaders from UMBC, Morgan State, and UMD receive $3M Mellon grant to diversify senior leadership in higher ed
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted UMBC, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) $3 million to launch Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Mellon/Maryland...
Posted: November 18, 2021, 2:00 PM
UMBC receives a $1M gift plus $1M in state match to establish the Fred and Virginia Pausch Professorship in Economics
UMBC will establish a new endowed professorship in economics thanks to a $1 million gift from an anonymous graduate and $1 million in matching funds from the Maryland E-nnovation Initiative Fund...
Posted: October 20, 2021, 1:06 PM
UMBC’s GRIT-X talks return for Homecoming 2021, highlighting research with a public impact
A hush fell over the excited audience in UMBC’s Proscenium Theatre last weekend, as Baltimore City Health Commissioner Letitia Dzirasa ‘03, biological sciences, stepped into the spotlight to...
Posted: October 15, 2021, 6:16 PM
International labor economist Tim Gindling is named UMBC’s 2021 – 2022 Liptz Professor
UMBC has named Tim Gindling, professor of economics, the 2021 – 2022 Lipitz Professor of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS). This endowed professorship celebrates,...
Posted: September 14, 2021, 4:04 PM
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